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Patented June 19, 1883.

J. E. SMITH. PIRE PROOF GARMENT.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JHN E. SMITH. OF NEY YORK. N. Y.

FlRE-PROOF GARMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 279,669, dated. June19, 1883,

Appliealion tiled March lil, lsrtt,

To 11H [elw/ib it may eoncern:

e it known that I, JouN E. SMITH, ot' the eity and eouiityol' New Yorkand St ate ot' New York, have invented a new aiul usel'nllniproveiiieiit in ltire-Proot(tai-ments, ot' whieh the following is aspeeitieation. ret'erenee being had to the aeeompanying drawings.

'lhe obieet ot' my invention. whieh l designate a tire-eseape garment,"ist'o enable persons to eseape through tianie and smoke t'roni burningbuildings.

'llie invention eonsists in a loose gown-like garment of' suitablelength. iiiade ot' some noneoinbnstible material, or material that willstand a short exposure to tiaine witliont heilig ignited thereby. andhavine sleeves t'or the :ii-ins, mittens or gloves t'or the hands. and aeoi'er t'or the head, and preferably provided with one or moreeyepieees. through whieh the wearer may look. rlhe gloves or mittens.sleeves. body. head-eovering. and eyepieees are all permanently lioiiiedtogether. so that the only opening in the entire garment is at thebottoni ot' the body. The sleeves are direetly opposite eaeli other.with the thumbs ot' the mittens pointing toward the body, and theeovering t'or the head preterably has eye-pieees on both sides above apoint midway between the sleeves. so that the garment is reversible. andmay be worn with either side in i'ront. Being thus reversible, iteannot7 during haste and exeitement be put on wrongly.

Referring to the drawings, Figure V1 is a 'ront i'iewot1 a man havingone of my iinproyed garments, whieli has two sets ot1 eye-pieees, and isreversible. Fig. .2 is a baek View. eorresponding with Fig. l.

fr is the body ol' the garment; I b, the sleeves; e e, the mittens, withthe thumbs i turned or direeted inward toward the body; d. theheadeovering. and e e the eye-pieees on one side. Direetly opposite to ee are other similar eye pieees, e' e. These eye-pieees may be eithe'idouble, as shown, or single, ot' sniiieient size. lhey maybe of glass ormiea and the garment ot' Sonie light and flexible material not readilyignited by flame-sueh as ashestus cloth. thin leather, or any fabricrendered diitienlt ot' eonibastion by the application of somechemicalt'or instance, tungstate 0r phosphate of soda. sulphate ofammonia7 or alum. Silk or woolen eloth may also be used.

(No landet) rlhe gainieiit may lie made seamless. or. it' notF thediti'erent portions ot' whieh it is eoiii posed. inelnding theeye-pieees. may be tasteiied together by any well-known means. suoli assewing. eeinentiiig. riveting. &e. The gai'- nieiit. (exeeptiug theeyepieees.) itl not ot' leather oil skin. slionld lie ol' t'elt ortightlywoveii elotli, so that smoke will not pass through it tooreadily.

The wearer an breathe the air eontiued in the garment during the shorttime that it is intended to be woi'ii.

l will ment ion that the position ol'thethunibs ot' the mittens towardthe body is ot' eonsiderable importanee, as in no other position wouldthey allow the garment to be so easily put on as well with one sidebet'ore as with the other and niaike it so pert'eetly reversible.

l am aware that heretofore various dresses have been devised torproteeting persons against tire. smoke, and water. Home ot' these areIjointed at the neek or waist. or both. and haveopen iiigs t'orrespirators, breatliing-t ulies, orair-tulies.besidesthe openingthroughwhieh they are put on. My invention ditt'ers t'rom these in beingin one pieee. with but the one opening through whieh it is put on; andwhen it has eye-pieees on both sides and the sleeves arranged asdeseribed it eau be worn with with either side in front. lV would remarkthat by omitting the sleeves my invention would still be useful andwould ditiei t'roni others, especially when it is provided witheye-pieees on different sides.

That I elaim as my invention. and desire to seeure by Letters Patent.is-

l. A tire-eseape garment having sleeves with mittens and eyepieees, allformed in one pieee with the body n, and the eomplete garment having buta single opening, as speeiiied.

2. lhe tirefeseape garment herein deseribed. formed or seeured in asingle pieee. and hav ing lintY a single opening. eonsisting ot' thebody a, the sleeves I. having mittens e. with inwardly-projeetingtliuiiib-pieees i', and opposite sets oteye-pieees, e, in head portiond. as and for the purposes set t'oitli.

JOHN l. SMITH.

\Vitnesses:

FBEDK. HAYNEs. ED. L. MORAN.4

